As RC3 has long requested, Chelan County has taken steps to significantly increase the availability of information about permitted short term rentals (STR’s) in the unincorporated areas of the county. First, they have provided a spreadsheet that lists all the STR's that have received permits to operate in 2024. This…
Update 09/05/23: Your help is urgently needed to stop a proposal to amend the Chelan County zoning code. The proposed change is to the land use category “Small Scale Recreational and Tourist Use” and would allow short term rentals of any size to locate in all residential zones with a…
Chelan County has proposed amendments to its zoning code which, if adopted, would permit very large absentee owner STRs in all residential neighborhoods. We almost didn’t catch this proposal because the changes aren’t in the STR section of the code. They are in the Sections of the code dealing with…